No one has forgotten that AJ Styles has worked for WCW seeing as that's the only footage WWE uses to talk about his pre-WWE career......

@MrMisterGaming

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, dying days of WCW and early days of TNA look pretty similar.

@damadiel9726

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrMisterGaming damnnnnn! Fax tho

@shawngregory5904

5 жыл бұрын

That is not true, on Photo shoot they showed TNA pics.

@damadiel9726

5 жыл бұрын

@@shawngregory5904 that's not footage

@tempestfennac9687

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrMisterGaming WCW never had Evil Tony Schiavone or 3 Elvis impersonators at once though. :P

I read somewhere that AJ refused to go to WWE in 2001 because his wife was in college and didn't want to move the family too far from home.

@BrandanTheBroker

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, true

@TJV83

5 жыл бұрын

Sire Kumasutra he’s a family man

@philly6886

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he talked bout it on stone colds podcast awhile back

@MikeGlasses

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah he didnt want to move to ohio to join ovw, which would mean his new wife would have to move back in with her parents while she finished college. AJ seems like a top notch guy

@RandoChrisYT

5 жыл бұрын

@@TJV83 *Guile's theme intensifies*

Surprised Sandman wasn't on this list. Surely people don't remember "Hardcore Hak"

@TheMuldoonFella

5 жыл бұрын

RockNRollHorrorshow I saw this comment, went and googled it and how the hell did I not know this sooner?

@Szhc

5 жыл бұрын

You just researched that lol.

@coolguy5412

5 жыл бұрын

I knew about Hardcore Hak. He had my favourite WCW match ever. Raven VS Hardcore Hak VS Bam Bam Bigelow

@Navigata1605

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@tempestfennac9687

5 жыл бұрын

@@coolguy5412 That's how I first found out he had a run with the company. Mark Madden also mentioned him in one of his Wrestle Zone columns and his abysmal Nitro match against Rick Steiner featured on the Best of Nitro Volume 3 for some reason.

I’m a huge WCW fan and stuck with them right til the end, one of things that had potential in 2001 was the new cruiserweights with AJ styles, Elix Skipper, Shane helms the Jung Dragons etc along with Kidman & Rey Jr, the new division could’ve been great with the introduction of the short lived cruiser tag belts also, nobody did the cruiser/light heavyweights better than WCW ✌️

@Jamessmith-xk3fh

5 жыл бұрын

Like What's wrong with cruiserweight tag titles. The person doing the list made it sound like stupid idea even though NJPW has the exact tag titles

@Bats-7

5 жыл бұрын

James smith yeah I totally agree I loved that they introduced the tag belts it had potential, would’ve been interesting to see if it continued in the Bischoff buyout of WCW, could’ve had Jerry Lynn, Amazing Red, low ki , Christopher Daniels etc all feature in the tag division at that time but we shall never know 👍

@weRUNdat308

5 жыл бұрын

I've been thinking about this lately and I totally agree... if bischoff bought wcw their new cruiserweight division would have been lit

@Jamessmith-xk3fh

5 жыл бұрын

@@weRUNdat308 if they could have fazed out all the old guys and hired real bookers because they had a lot of good young talent that was starting to get shine in the dying days of WCW. There is a video on KZread but can't remember the channel but it talks about what Bishoff had planned for the first PPV if he would have been able to buy WCW

@faithfamilyandcountry7452

5 жыл бұрын

Bats 1986 honestly you’re the only person I’ve ever heard say they stuck with WCW until the end. Not criticizing I think it’s great someone actually admits it since most people jumped ship during the buy out and claimed WWF/WWE allegiance the whole time. Either way it was a great time to be a fan and it hasn’t been the same since.

Undertaker worked for WCW in 1989 as Mean Mark Callous before going to the WWF.

@tonigc5808

4 жыл бұрын

And he had a match against Sting

@bryanchute626

4 жыл бұрын

Wow when did u figure that out Capt Obvious

@FrostWazowski

4 жыл бұрын

10 wrestlers you FORGOT wrestled in WCW ... Nobody has forgotten that Taker worked for WCW for 5 minutes. They're talking about lesser names. "Undertaker worked for WCW once" is like saying "sting worked for WCW once" ... Everyone knows and remembers.

@its_classy

4 жыл бұрын

He's just informing people who may not know, jesus calm down.

@FrostWazowski

4 жыл бұрын

@@its_classy the only people who dont know are people who have never given a shit about wrestling. Those of us who currently do watch, or did watch once, all know that undertaker jumped from WCW to WWF at the end of the 80s.

I remember AJ being a part of Air Raid during WCW's dying days, but the rest of the Top Five genuinely surprised me. Good list, Adam.

Oddly enough I didn't forget that Aj Styles worked in WCW, or Triple H, or Davey boy Smith I have failed you cultaholic

@marcus813

5 жыл бұрын

I knew about Davey Boy Smith's 1st WCW run when I was messing around in a Suncoast Motion Picture Company store in the mid-1990s. I never forgot, either! That makes 2 of us. LOL

@nathaniellugo3435

5 жыл бұрын

@@marcus813 if I'm being honest I only knew that Davey boy Smith was in WCW because of his career threatening injury there caused by an angle they were doing with the ultimate warrior at the time

@Jamessmith-xk3fh

5 жыл бұрын

I remember most of them but HHH

@TadRaunch

5 жыл бұрын

I only knew because of the aforementioned N64 game. And that's really only because I had WWF Warzone.

@shishsuke

5 жыл бұрын

I even knew about Ahmed Johnson because wrestling KZreadrs keep making jokes about how Booker and him fought about who got to use the letter T in their name lol

How can I forget that Jake the Snake was in WCW? Who can forget the masterpiece that is spoken only in shadows that we know as Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal? "Sting, I knew you'd come"

I totally remember Jeff Jarrett being in the 4 Horsemen. How come I can remember that but nothing important? lmao

@tempestfennac9687

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff's awful outfits probably helped regarding making him memorable. :P

@EssexAggiegrad2011

4 жыл бұрын

I recall Flair and Double A don't consider him a Horsemen

Sandman as Hak should’ve been on this list

Imagine if WCW was still alive today...and how different WWE would be today.

@ExtremeX9

5 жыл бұрын

O.o I didn't know the game was wait for it the lame XD ooooh I know triple H is going to hit me with his sledgehammer and pedigree me

@namikstudios

Жыл бұрын

It still would be had the morons at TimeWarner not made the single biggest mistake in the history of the industry. They didn't think wrestling in general was good enough to be on TNT or TBS. Fast-forward to 2019 and what happens? Warner backflips spectacularly and puts AEW on TNT, thus admitting they were totally wrong to take WCW off the very same channel in the first place.

That legit blows my mind about Bruno. I thought I'd know everyone on this list but kudos to you guys for stumping me on that one!

forget fantasy booking, when I think about Owen Hart staying in WCW the only thing that comes to my mind is the fact that he'd still be alive

@dupehotterthansoup

5 жыл бұрын

You don't know that. Anything could have happened to the guy.

@robertclark2253

5 жыл бұрын

I've read similar comments they're all speculation even if Owen had stayed in WCW Vince would have still bought WCW anyway and he may or may not have repackaged Owen all we do know is that we lost a great wrestler that fateful night and in closing may Owen and all the wrestlers and wrestling personalities we've lost , love them or hate them , rest well .

@jvfm97

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertclark2253 there's true to that, but you to have to keep in mind that Vince only bought WCW in 2001 therefore the equipment would be of better quality and the WWE was entering the ruthless aggression era, so it's unlikely that he would be repackaged as blue blazer.

@jvfm97

5 жыл бұрын

@@dupehotterthansoup true but he almost certainly wouldn't have died in an accident like that.

@robertclark2253

5 жыл бұрын

Again speculation there's no way of telling what might happen in life which is not scripted he MIGHT be alive today if events at the Kemper hadn't gone down then again he MIGHT NOT remember anything can happen in life just as it can in WWE remember life is not scripted .

I'd like to see one of these for TNA as well, which was also a revolving door, especially early on. :p

@mcbreadstick7787

5 жыл бұрын

They've made one already

"Cruiserweight Tag Division. That was actually a thing." Yes, it was a thing. A GOOD thing. WCW had over 20 cruiserweights on the roster. Most people remember these. AJ Styles may surprise some since he only had 4 matches. Bruno Sammartino and Owen Hart may also be surprising to some. I thought this list may have been more rare ones like Kid Kash (Cash), RVD (Robbie V), Raven's first run (Scotty Flamingo), EZ Money (Jason B/Jett), Jerry Lynn (Mr. JL) and Paul London.

I was feeling pretty smug about knowing all of these and then the top 3 hit :/

That was Rotundas 3rd run in WCW not his second.

IRS worked for WCW as Michael Wallstreet in the early 90’s.

@cowboymartyr1699

4 жыл бұрын

I.R.S was Father of Bray Wyatt , aka Husky Harris of NeXuS (nWo of 2010s )

@_BigTimer85

4 жыл бұрын

@@cowboymartyr1699 Can't put anything past you

@cowboymartyr1699

4 жыл бұрын

@@_BigTimer85 I'm from 1920 mate.

@RobbieStrike

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I had a WCW trading card with him on it from the early 90's

You can never forget Ahmed Johnson's legendary promos in WWF War Zone, though. STEP UP TO PUNCHY

@paulk6399

5 жыл бұрын

Juice make sugar

Undertaker in 1988 as "Mean" Mark Callous. He was managed by Theodore Long.

@mannhouse8014

4 жыл бұрын

THAT Thedore Long? Did he try to make every match a "6 man tag team match playa?" Or did he try to make someone go "one on one with Mean Mark Callous"?

I remember all of them but I really did enjoy you reminding me.

Thanks a lot Cultaholic. Now Triple H is gonna bury AJ Styles.

@downer9099

5 жыл бұрын

Lil trips knew aj was in wcw

@mortyjr8433

5 жыл бұрын

Triple H likes wcw it’s Vince that doesn’t

@plcthelegacy4131

5 жыл бұрын

Won't that mean Tripper would bury himself?

@MetalJT24

5 жыл бұрын

Pedigree outta nowhere

@BlindSideNZ

5 жыл бұрын

Jalen Payton I think AJ will be fine bro...

I actually remembered most of these... I think it was just IRS, Styles, Samartino, and Roberts that I didn't know about. In fact, the first few on the list, I remembered very well.

@crazyli

4 жыл бұрын

@bucky468 Seems he was a lower midcarder the entire time so didn't really have any real prominence. Guys that WCW weren't pushing during the Monday Night Wars easily got lost in the shuffle and forgotten.

Seriously, how could anyone not remember HHH in WCW?

@INSIDETHEMATRYX

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah especially since he wrestled using his real name!

@davidgrant3746

4 жыл бұрын

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@brendan909

4 жыл бұрын

how could someone remember that if they never knew to begin with? Not everyone watched both brands. I did watch both.

@christophercamacho8074

4 жыл бұрын

I’m a 2000s kid so that should be my excuse lol

@owck3527

3 жыл бұрын

Because not everyone is an aging grape that was 30 years old in the 90s. I know people have been isolating, but get this... there are other people of different ages out there! Get off your high horse 😆

you forgot RVD! he was robbie v for about a year or something.

Oddly enough, I remember IRS in the York Foundation as Michael Wallstreet before he got into the WWF. Completely blanked out the NWO days.

@jamespesetsky

5 жыл бұрын

Wrestling With Wregret will refresh your memory with Brian Zane's review of WCW Souled Out 1997 PPV!

@raidernation7427

5 жыл бұрын

And Michael Wallstreet introduced us to Alexandra York (Terri Runnels) my 2nd wrestling crush after Miss Elizabeth.

@reygordo

4 жыл бұрын

I remember Mike Rhotonda

@reygordo

4 жыл бұрын

In a Syracuse Orange singlet

@kpllc4209

4 жыл бұрын

@@reygordo Captain Mike was a bad ass, Varsity Club was the most underrated faction in wrestling. The 88-89 unit would destroy every other faction in wrestling history.

Even Charlotte Flair worked for WCW

@lancedonovan9781

5 жыл бұрын

she made appearances, charlotte was still 14 years old by time wwe buyed wcw in 2001

Let that sink in Shawn stasiak got signed before AJ styles lol

@genericpersons5103

4 жыл бұрын

Family connections. Naturally. Nepotism is a problem everywhere.

Wcw had a great timeline from '89-'94 and we saw tons of top talent come through wcw then HHH Raven Hall and Nash Owen Hart Shane Douglas rvd 2cold Scorpio besides the legends like bulldog Austin Pillman Foley and this is a really underrated time in wrestling as it was great and you can watch most episodes of wcw Saturday night on KZread

This was really neat. Nice job with the video

Everyone who is a fan knows Aj worked in WcW it’s common knowledge by now

and before Oz he was actually part of a team called the master blasters

Greg Valentine bounced back and forth between WWF and WCW his often time tag partner Honky Tonk Man even showed up in WCW for a few months in 1994 .

Who forgot Jarrett worked in WCW? He was Russo's boy!

@stevemorganexperience7833

5 жыл бұрын

Nathan Zimmerman remember that as well he was in the horseman and it didn’t work

IRS spent more time in Jim Crocket/WCW than WWF, the video even shows everything he did there. Good work!

If Owen had signed with WCW he would probably still be alive.

@dodzik07

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Hurley True

@Jamessmith-xk3fh

5 жыл бұрын

I don't remember Owen and The Anvil being in WCW and I'm 35 and was a WCW person

@robertclark2253

5 жыл бұрын

James smith Owen was in WCW as a singles wrestler in late 1991 to early 1992 Anvil came into WCW after the Survivor Series fiasco in late 1997 along with Davey Boy Smith .

@chrisrd86

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe but at the same time like many 8f the best talent wcw had eg Austin, y2j, Eddie, benoit etc... they wouldn't know how to use him right I think he would ended back at wwe/wwf at some point not that I think wwe used him right he was soo talented he could of been more but I do think they used him better than wcw could of

@namikstudios

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisrd86 Austin learned how to wrestle in WCW and is a former multiple time WCW US champ. The US title was the first major championship Austin ever held, which is probably why the WWE have kept the title around to this day (it's the only former WCW championship still active in 2023). Austin just hadn't developed his own skills as a character by that point, which is something he later did while in ECW long before he got to the WWF. Jericho's best work was while he was in WCW and it's where he developed his character. Same with Eddie and unfortunately the wife beating murderer. WCW used them all perfectly well. None of these wrestlers were developed by WWE.

I think you meant “request” not “release” for HHH’s singles push.

The editors have a hard-on for disco inferno.. he’s in every scene

I remember a younger Jake Roberts in Mid Atlantic, the precursor to WCW.

I remember a couple of these guys WCW runs.

Sad thing about Owen was he died just a few months before Benoit, Angle, Eddie, Jericho and Dean Malenko all went to the WWE. He would have had amazing matches with all of them.

I knew all of these things cuz I’m a wrestling nerd but I didn’t know entry 2 had televised matches. I thought it was just dark matches but I’m shocked about him and Ricky Morton tagged. That’s amazing

Loved the cruiserweight tag division.. Rey mysterious & billy Kidman need to bring those to 205

@Jamessmith-xk3fh

5 жыл бұрын

It's like to the writer of this list having those titles was a joke even though NJPW had those type of titles first

Is there any company AJ Styles HAS NOT worked at? I don’t remember him being in CZW but after a google search, yep he was in CZW.

@Szhc

5 жыл бұрын

ECW.

@TJV83

5 жыл бұрын

Szhc you got me there!!!!

@jamespesetsky

5 жыл бұрын

WCPW

The Varsity Club was such an underrated stable.

@kpllc4209

4 жыл бұрын

They would of wrecked every other faction in wrestling history. They had mega heat, were funny, entertaining and brutal in the ring.

IRS Was Michael Wallstreet before he was IRS.

@robertclark2253

5 жыл бұрын

Captain Mike Rotunda as well .

Btw Rotuna was a really good wrestler, one of my favs who didnt get a lot of gold, him Arn Anderson and Val Venis.

Yea knew all of these already😂. I was with wcw before and during the monday night war 😊

Known as The Quebecers In WWF and The Amazing French Canadians in WCW anyone ?

@martyklestadt6766

4 жыл бұрын

Not only that, but PCO is still wrestling today!

@robertclark2253

4 жыл бұрын

Jaque Rogeau was in a tag team with his brother Raymond then he was The Mountie and then he was part of The Quebecers this team moved to WCW where they were known as The Amazing French Canadians .

fascinating wrestling history.... thank you

imo Good vid. I did WCW's ppv trade advertising from the early 90s through the late 90s and didn't know half of them. imo

I definitely remember Sabu in wcw when I was a kid because after the match he use to spit fireballs on people

I can tell you the one huge thing that Owen Hart could have done while in WCW. He still be alive. He would’ve never died from that fall.

James Storm and Chris Harris appeared several times in WCW in 2000 as security for Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo during New Blood storyline, long before they became America's Most Wanted.

Only 2 i Forget/ didn’t knew worked for wcw Bruno and Owen

This is only ones I don't remember is Owen Hart, Bruno Sammartino being in the WCW but I remember all the rest

"SABU! I'MA CHOKE YOU OUT! SEE YA ON THE THIRTEENTH!" -TaZ 🤣

Some of these blew my mind

Yes i too can't remember these things i never knew.

I was wondering if that was a young terry funk. And holy crap it was :).

VK Wallstreet was a revival of Mike Rotunda's "Michael Wallstreet" character from 1990. Michael Wallstreet was mainly famous for (1) putting Mike in a shirt and tie BEFORE Irwin (2) introducing the world to Alexandra York (Terri "Marlena" Boatright-Runnells) laptop-tapping future mistress of the York Foundation whose bodyguard Mr Hughes went onto be enforcer for World champion Lex Luger and his manger Harley Race.

No mention of Edge, Rhino, Jerry Lynn (even though you briefly mentioned him), Rick Martel, RVD, or even Marty Jennety?

@daviddavis3684

5 жыл бұрын

That's because they all sucked

I do remember all but two working in tWCW,I really don't remember Owen Hart and Bruno Sanmartino being in the WCW. This was either because I was in the hospital having back surgery and recoverying or I was busy with my life that I didn't get to watch much of any wrestling.

I don't know why Jeff ever wore that strap top. It looks like it was meant for Debra lol

@crazyhayn

5 жыл бұрын

If you believe Bruce, Jeff brought that design with him from Memphis and thought it was cool.

A J Styles was in WWF in 1999 on WWF Metal show before WCW. This is his second run with WWE

If Owen Hart had stayed in WCW he might of still been alive to this very day.........

Need to make this list again and longer.

Jean Paul levisque and stunning Steve are my fav wcw gimmicks and characters ngl

Das Wunderkind going over Hunter is so perfect. Exactly the kind of jobbing that Paul so richly deserves. Then he left for WWF so he could job out his dignity and let daddy-in-law pin him for the world title.

I remembered every one of these. I'm surprised andre the giant wasn't on this list

Never a star in wwe but this has reminded me that Norman smiley existed what a man

Davey Boy Smith in WCW 1993 was a big deal here in the UK - it got people tuning in to Saturday afternoon on ITV once more and alerted the tabloids to WCW's existence. Sting and Davey vs Vader & Sid was THE big pushed WCW feud of 1993.

The person who should be #1 on this list, yet you didn't mention, was Christopher Daniels. He wrestled like one match on Nitro and broke his neck.

@robertclark2253

5 жыл бұрын

Actually bounced bounced back and forth between WWF , WCW and the independent leagues between 1998 and 2001 well remembered about the neck injury though have a like.

Mike Rotunda, was in WCW in early nineties and regularly feuded with The Steiners.

What about James Storm, Kid Kash and Christopher Daniels?

4:25 direct quote from OSW 👍

You should do a list of 10 wrestlers who wrestled on both starrcade and WrestleMania

Sad thing is I remember all of these people in wcw damn I’m getting old lol

New vid? I click!!!

It's funny as Bruno worked as a commentator for Herb Abrahams UWF

3:30 I thought that was Nakamura for a hot sec!

I didn't forget about any of these. Why are you assuming i did???

I remembered all of these.

What is the name of background music in the beginning ?

Honorable mention: Greg Valentine, Marty Jannette, Rikishi, Billy Jack Haynes, Bob Orton, Road Dog, Nailz

I've got one for you. Bruno working for WCW is like Big Match John leaving the WWE to work for TNA!

I remember aj being in wcw as they were beginning to build a cruiser weights tag team division and Ahmed Johnson was set to be a huge star but that changed quickly and I don't know what wcw was thinking bringing him on?

Okay, I’ll give you credit. There was 1 wrestler on the list I didn’t know worked for WCW but that’s because I was just starting to watch WCW when Owen Hart debuted.

Bruno doesn't surprise me that much seeing as he and Vince had heat for years.

If Owen hart took the wcw contract he’d still be alive

Even Cultaholic forgot Kane.

@robertclark2253

5 жыл бұрын

Kane wrestled in Smokey Mountain Wrestling and USWA and WWF/E although a former WCW tag team champion that was part of year long "Invasion" angle after the WWF bought WCW .

@Daraymann

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertclark2253 - He actually had one match against Sting during a TV taping in 1993 as Bruiser Mastino.

@robertclark2253

5 жыл бұрын

Okay just watched it nothing much happened probably why I and Cultaholic forgot about it thanks for bringing it to my attention again have a like.

Owen Hart should've been at the top of the list and rvd Hall and Nash Raven all were in wcw before the nwo era

For the comparison of Bruno going to WCW you should of said it would of been like Shawn Michaels going to WCW . He never sold out like Higan, Flair or Brett. Even Sting eventually took that WWE money, Aside from getting fired the first time with The Rockers , he stayed true to the Fed. Him and The Deadman.

The HHH one is so hilarious

I forgot WCW. Sorry! 😀 Oh yeah, the 90's, I was on a ton of drugs back then💊.............. How dare you speak ill of Miss Elizabeth 3:19. N64😅😅😅. Roberts should have DDT'd Watts. Think of all the crack he could have bought. ( just joking Jake, you're easily one of my all time favourites)👑

I believe its Ultimo Dragon, thank you very much

What about Eugene? The former Nick Dinsmore worked a handful of Thunder and Nitro shows under his real name in late 1998 jobbing to people like Scott Steiner and The Cat.

This dude just called the Ultimo Dragon "the Ultimate Dragon", didn't he? 😑

@djpee25

5 жыл бұрын

Wcw often called him that way too earlier on...

If only vince had kept his word just imagine how much better the new generation era would have been with Jake as the booker.

IRS was also in the WWF in 1985 with Barry Windham